Charles Sun

Charles Sun is a China-focused policy analyst and Sinovation Fellow at the Yale School of Management. He developed the Proactive Elite Alignment Theory framework as a Global Affiliate Visiting Fellow at Stanford's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. His research draws on Chinese-language government records, corporate filings, and procurement documents, and is informed by a decade in Beijing's financial sector. His analysis has appeared in Foreign Policy, War on the Rocks, China Brief, and The Diplomat.